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Example sentences for: yardstick

How can you use “yardstick” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

They will insist, through legislation and other means, that Beijing's behavior toward Hong Kong become the yardstick by which Washington determines its level of cooperation with China.
Why should the U.S. public accept the yardstick JacobWeisberg offered us for "measuring the Clinton foreign-contributions scandal" in his defense of the Democrats, "Does Everybody Do It?"
A yardstick I watch on a daily basis is the stock price.
The owner's scope of work should be used as the yardstick against which to measure performance.
"General Pevez Musharraf has suddenly become an overnight celebrity and a 'yardstick' of general knowledge for Americans and may well become the factor to decide who will be America's next president," began a front-page report from Washington on Monday.